skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to me to be far better than a company which simply gives 0.1% of US GDP back to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks, which is a very common occurrence given the size of companies nowadays.

The whole point of investing in companies is for those companies to eventually give the shareholders more resources back than they put in. [0] Those shareholders can then consume those resources, or invest them in something else; like eg startups that pursue new technologies.

Returning capital to shareholders is exactly how investing works and how it has to work. Otherwise it would be charity, which is also fine, but it's something different.

Are you also against companies paying back debt, instead of endlessly rolling over one loan into another loan and paying interest only with money from new loans? (If not, how is that different?)

[0] On average, and in expectation. Investing in risky endeavours means that sometimes they fail, and you get less or no money back.
We need KYC for open source--call it know-your-maintainer. It's only a matter of time before there's a really serious hack and this becomes imperative.
Professor has more choice/control of team than your VP|Mananger|Lead

Professor is like CEO of 8 person company (or independent division). All your other examples are cogs in huge machine.
There is no evidence for what you are saying.
> “I am so and so of the Egyptian intelligence service and would like to blackmail you”

No, but practically by definition the target has to know they’re being forced to “help” and therefore know someone is targeting the project. Some percentage of the time the target comes clean about whatever compromising information was gathered about them, which then potentially alerts the project to the fact they’re being targeted. When it does work you have to keep their mouth shut long enough for your operation to succeed which might mean they have an unfortunate accident, which introduces more risks, or you have to monitor them for the duration which ties up resources. It’s way simpler just to insert a trusted asset into a project.
I seem to recall good support for PC98[0][1] was seminal. Our friend ‘washbear has notes[2], which might be touching on (eg) KAME[3] too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98

[1] https://hackaday.com/2023/12/26/the-strange-world-of-japans-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375371

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAME_project
I feel like one of the well respected add-on folks made a helicopter with autopilot, but yeah, it would certainly be an interesting exercise!
I identify very strongly with what you've written here.

A guy who studied at Eton and a guy who grew up in a rural village in Uganda couldn't be any more different regardless of whether they can both tick a Black African box on an application form.

The same is obviously true of a guy from a poor part of Glasgow vs. a guy who studied at Eton, regardless of whether both could tick a White British box.

It's so far from any reasonable sense of truth that I feel like I'm in some sort of bad acid trip whenever the topic comes up. To me, the act of trying to categorise people in this way is in and of itself horribly racist.
Statistically, the majority of pedestrian deaths each year occur on high speed roads, with cars doing 45-55 mph. The v^2 part of the equation is going to dominate. We should get average speed down in areas where pedestrians are, and take steps to ensure that pedestrians are nowhere near the places we allow cars to go highway speed.

About half of all pedestrian deaths are caused by drunk driving, so that's another relatively low hanging fruit we could aim for if we really had the political will to do so.
Smell is usually a great heuristic. If something has a bad smell, it’s probably problematic even if you can’t logically identify the problem.
As someone that uses the 5th most possible DE I appreciate the state of the landscape. But more to the point I think you’re not framing this correctly. I think this question is the best way to probe get to the heart of our disagreement:

How would you coerce or incentivize the developers of this DE to work on a more mature project?
ATT has $400B in assets on their balance sheet
You think Llama is a pet project?
It would seem the Manhatten project got more bang for its buck.
Maybe there’s an important correlation here between needing computer help and having a messy desktop
They would be little choice with St. James'.

St. James means something else.

So unless they go for St. Jamess it's have to be St. Jameses.
At the time my setup didn't require other daemons like that. But if I had been in that position, I would have just set up the other daemon under Debian and pointed HA at it.

These days I'd say that NixOS captures that requirement, allowing orchestration of many daemons and other system config to be abstracted into a packaged solution (eg NixOS Mailserver), that the user can override as much or as little as they'd like.

I believe NixOS does package (or at least attempts to package) HA, but given my past experience and what I believe is still the throw-it-over-the-wall desire of the HA maintainers, I'm wary of adopting it as an overarching solution. I'm certainly not ruling it out for performing some functions, like UI. I just would rather set up my automation efforts as MQTT-first, keep logging and automation rules as their own separate things, and not be fully committed to HA.
The bacteria gonna’ keep us from Mars
The classic exploitation vs exploration trade-off.
> In order to make up your mind correctly you need to be feed accurate information.

Haha. And we're going to let the government decide what is "correct" and "accurate"?

Letting whoever is currently in power control what information the electorate has access to is one of the single biggest threats to democracy.

> Al Jazeera making up causality figures in real-time isn’t how you make up your mind.

The correct response is pointing out that their numbers are made up. In a working democracy you get people to see truth through public discourse, not censorship.

Don't make a deal with the devil just to shut up the neighbor's annoying dog.
Here is little more technical discussion.
https://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/4877/1/01-S...
This is cool. I am using body pose angles to determine the correct pose for a pushup/squat/whatever. It will be really nice not to use the camera for this and somehow determine the correct pose only using the CoreMotion data. I will dig into this.

A combination of watch + airpods should probably solve the overall body pose and positioning.

However, people would still want videos for reference and to get visual feedback.Perhaps not. Just an audio feedback supplanted by occasional video should help.
Faculty select teaching assistants and the research staff for their labs, effectively unilaterally. They have the power to hire and fire. They choose topics of research, and can instruct their mentees to stop a line of inquiry. This is similar in scope and power to a combined project-manager, research-manager and person-manager. They also are the decider to grant later-stage credentialing, so throw in a bit of training instructor too…
The exact question doesn't even matter that much. They could just as well give you a blank page.

What's more important is how they grade and rank you and make decisions. Eg imagine they only hired you if filled that blank page with a picture of the Pope, even if there are no explicit instructions or questions asking for it.
Oh man are you on to something!!! One huge, bad side effect of web is the atomization of an overall body of work into 62.9 million links.

One pdf please. The book concept works!

You know who's docs blow too? Mellanox. I hate their stuff.

And to give credit where due: intel does a damn good job.
I think this is a good point. I wonder how useful diversity statements are for accomplishing this task. It just seems like cheap talk to me. More useful would be to reward people in tenure review for outreach to minorities.

I’m from a minority, just not one that is recognized as such in the convoluted system that is racial politics in the US (I am of Iraqi descent). But if I were in the shoes of someone who should be benefiting from DEI policies, I’d be pissed off with how it’s shaken out. Seems like a whole lot of empty, performative symbolism with negligible actual change. Things like DEI statements read like box ticking to me, allowing administrators to say they’ve “tried” without doing anything. Same goes for sensitivity trainings, and flashy renaming of, for example, master to main. The singular focus on symbolism has not done anyone any favors apart from a few semiotics professors, although I wonder if they’ve been chastened by how little their favored policies have accomplished.
Throwing in my vote - I wasn’t confused, saw your GH link and a “Zero to Hero” course name on RL, seems clear to me and “Zero to Hero” is a classic title for a first course, nice that you gave props to Andrea too! Multiple people can and should make ML guides and reference each other. Thanks for putting in the time to share your learnings and make a fantastic resource out of it!
> They might not even use blackmail, they might just "help out"

If the target knows or suspects what you’re asking them to do is nefarious then you still run the same risks that they talk before your operation is complete. It’s still far less risky to avoid tipping anyone else off and just slip a trusted asset into a project.
We have always faced it, it’s just that there's more awareness of the potential issues.
People not having the same priorities as you does not equate to death. You are being rude and overly dramatic.
LOL!

I think the author has never seen videos of windmills catching fire and falling apart.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=windmill+fire+

Allyson Chiu deserves to be mocked for this one.
I don't know how you kind of appreciate that all your health data is uploaded to some random cloud server...
The @MetaAI as a group member in group chats has been great. Riff on images together, write stories, have it impersonate authors or write chapters of a (bad) book. Revitalized a few old group chats that went days without messages to constant messing around with the AI.
> Addresses make notable examples. The “complex and idiosyncratic” Japanese address system reflects the organic growth of its urban areas. In British postal codes the final part can designate anything from a street to a flat depending on the amount of mail received by the premises.

Those systems are actually useful, you know. I have a friend who used to live at a place with address like "Northern Living Block, 157". There were about 300 total buildings in that block, and the numbers were assgined to the buildings pretty randomly, so it was impossible to navigate unless you were either given explicit directions, or had a map with you.

The routing info has to live somewhere, you know. Pushing it into the IDs means that you don't need to "have an entry in some database saying '1|INFRA|HOST|12' RUNS '1|APM|APPLICATION|23'", you don't have to update/delete it as needed, you don't need to look it up and deal with caching issues, etc.
That National Review article seems to be a rehash of it's reference from https://unherd.com/newsroom/mit-becomes-first-elite-universi... which claims to actually have been in communication with the university.
Ignoring the pros and cons of these statements, I would bet money that the biggest (or perhaps "real") reason they're being axed is that nobody is reading them. It's one thing to all agree that something sounds great on paper, until you're forced to sit down and read page after page after page of drivel the authors didn't want to have to write while trying to say the things that you probably want to hear.
Though Facebook/Meta is actually a bit of a weak example, because it is very much controlled by its founder, who can outvote any public shareholder.

So any compliance with the 'wishes of market' was somewhat voluntary.
Russia, China, Iran, and NKorea see themselves at war with The West. It is wishful thinking on The Western people's part that leaders (mostly) will not to acknowledge it publicly, and take the necessary actions with purpose and conviction
This is Water by David Foster Wallace

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
MMM is life-changing in general!
Oh man, I FEEL this comment. That was one absurdly awful set of documentation, because they not just have a lot of confusingly placed repeat content, they also follow the philosophy of only explaining top level initial conceptual primer for everything, and only explaining the actual main use case of the component 3 navigation pages deep.

So a beginner has to jump a BUNCH of pages to get a primer, and an expert has to bookmark the couple actually-useful pages and later give up and just look at github for specific operators/processors when they already know the basic config inside out.
I don't think I'd feel too safe no matter what. There are good odds that the smaller car is moving faster than the big clumsy pickup, and so the car is likely to have at least as much, and maybe more kinetic energy.

Also, bumpers on pickups are actually pretty low. Any normal bollard or concrete planter is going to be pretty effective. No pickup is going to drive over something like that.
It’s hardly stupid and it’s not in the spirit of HN to go on such diatribes. Cars today are vastly, vastly safer than even 30 years ago, never mind 80, and crumple zones are a huge part of that.
Why? I think comparing to GDP percentage make more sense in this case, since the point is to compare their economical scale, not how invested the gov is on these projects.

(Not to mention, one side (meta) has little to do with government funding to begin with.)
Dockerized HA on Debian is exactly what died on me. About 5-6 years ago. I'm sure it works just fine for most people. Just once bitten, twice shy.
(Maybe conspicuously doing what is perceived as the right thing is how people get hired…)
> Anyone still using the term "woke" in a serious discussion at this point is using a thought terminating cliche.

In December 2020, New Republic published an essay by the African-American Marxist Adolph Reed Jr (professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania), entitled "Beyond the Great Awokening: Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing" [0] in which he criticises "the Woke".

Now, you may or may not agree with his criticisms, but he is not using "a thought terminating cliche". On the contrary, he means something quite specific by it: a contemporary form of progressive politics which prioritises race over class, as opposed to Reed's own classic Marxism which prioritises class over race.

I myself tend to avoid invoking the word, because I find it derails discussions from whatever the substantive topic was, into debating what that word means and the appropriateness of using it.

But, on the other hand, I think the phenomenon which Reed labels as "Woke" is a real thing, and if we aren't to call it "Woke", what then should we call it? I get the impression that some people don't want to let people call it anything, as part of a strategy to put it beyond criticism.

[0] https://newrepublic.com/article/160305/beyond-great-awokenin...
Space flu
Yes, taking risks with your own money can be a good thing. But taking risks also means that project don't always pan out.

I don't know enough about Facebook to say whether the expected value of that bet was positive. But that's not my judgement to make in the first place.

> The laws that govern us has improved from the medieval days where money is everything, so just because a private entity is able to spend a lot doesn't imply there's anything untoward.

Yes, I agree that it's a good thing that people and companies can spend their money how they see fit.
Thanks a lot. It makes me feel better to hear that the post is not completely confusing and appropriating - I really didn't mean that, or to use it as a trick for attention.
Did we read the same thread? Nobody asked the HA developer to support anything, rather that developer started the conversation by making demands and then kept at it.
Why would that be a better or worse indicator?
Show HN: I made an open-source tool to send and monitor emails
It's good that Apple is giving resources back to the rest of the economy, yes.
The only constant is that things will change, good architecture accommodates by only making the necessary decisions to provide safety and usability with the hooks and studs to build what's needed now.
It's somewhat standard to have a "1 Year Cliff and 4 Year Vesting". So 50%-50% may be "unfair"[1] if the other cofounder continues working and you left the project completely.

I don't understand what the other cofounder has been doing this time, because it's too difficult to sell a product that still don't exist.

[1] Sorry if "unfair" sounds too agresive. But I think you must ask someone that is used to this cases how to split the equity. Also, it looks like you are not leaving the project completely, so it's more complicated.
Are people really looking though? Are all open source libraries being run through extensive performance profiling to look for known heuristics? Are they being looked at line by line for aberrations?

I don’t have confidence that people are looking for evidence of potential exploitation because of reasons like the ones you bring up.

So we’re back to we just don’t know.
On second thought, I think you're right. The term breaking user-space is more accurate.

I was more thinking of the 'end-user', not the package maintainers, and app developers. Random user upgrades to a new OS release, gets the new software packages which use the new ABI.
"There's no bragging rights to your software, because it's too simple to use", a developer criticized my product. This reduced its viral spread, though managers liked it.
Krita is a great counterexample for your claim.
You get one, all the others are dupes.
the rent being high is not in itself evidence of cartel behaviour. And if the cartel allegations are true, what of it if they do not manage to actually affect the market? The resources spent on trying to catch cartels might be better off spent elsewhere if the cartel is ineffective.

There's also many other explanations of rent increases, such as lack of supply, which are more likely imho.

Pinning this on cartel like behaviour, when the market clearly has a lot of competition, is just moving the spotlight away from the root cause - that of a lack in supply. This is region specific - some regions that have increased supply have then seen rental decreases, while other regions which did not have increased supply (in new builds) have not.
They got lots of ads out of it. People paid for those ads voluntarily.

What Facebook does with the money they earn is up to them.

Would you have asked the same question if Mr Zuckerberg had spent it all on yachts?
Childbirth rates plummeting is not good news. People want to have kids and they just can't afford it, or they are too self-absorbed to make the necessary sacrifices. Sudden drops in birth rates will cause severe hardships for everyone.

>It turns out that, given education, opportunity, and choice, women want an average of far under 2 children.

Given an endless stream of propaganda against traditional values, conditioning to be too picky, conditioning to be afraid of childbirth itself, conditioning to despise men, and conditioning to seek jobs that are not amenable to long-term relationships or child rearing, women are not having enough kids. It is a disaster for our civilization. I know a lot of smart/successful guys who can't find women who want to have kids. There are many other factors in play too but I think this is an engineered catastrophe. We obviously shouldn't continue with exploding populations but few of the armchair technocrats who agree with the direction of things have really understood how bad it is.
It seems like it's every day that I see signs that institutions are preparing for and aligning themselves with a prospective Trump presidency. Recent purges of media are another big one, especially of ones featuring marginalized groups, though thoughtful and challenging stories in general are targets - inclusive, ironically-though-quite-creatively, of something like Helldivers 2. You might not think that that example counts, but I do. It fits what is fast becoming the zeitgeist, one of monoliths flexing their ability to act with impunity, individuals left with nothing more than futile, quiet acts of resistance (which don't ultimately do much resisting). The guy at the top is doing it, after all, so for those at the top of their particular interest (market, field, etc.): why not? Who's going to stop you?

Our democracy might be and remain intact, but our democratic values - particularly those of valuing forthright thought; of speaking up and across instead of down; and of not hiding our faults behind smug strength or stone walls of silence, but instead exposing them so that they may be cleansed and sutured - do seem to be in jeopardy. This is an example of choosing easy over rigorous, and that's sad, especially for MIT.

We have ample evidence of how this happens in societies descending into radical nationalism, if not fascism. So, now I'm just wondering if we're the "learn from the past"-types or the "doomed to repeat it"-types. (Just as much as I'd like to know the answer to that, I'd love to hear from someone who understands what I'm trying to say here, even if they disagree.)
Probably money gets wasted and GPUs go unused.
I'm not a hardware engineer, but what are the chances this gets Moores Law'ed out in about a decade. As in within 10 years we'll have the same power with a million dollars in GPUs.

With that much money I'd imagine you could purchase a GPU manufacturer or something.
I think it's more the detail they lost (or do not agree with) is that working successfully in multiple environments can valide the strength of the design. Some people will look at a slightly different structure underneath and see it as noise and hassle instead, where you or I may see their action as taking unnecessary or questionable dependencies.
war of the worlds in reverse.
S3 also has USB support that I've come to hugely appreciate on dev boards... tho I just got some oddball single-port boards that used a CH340 anyways. Grrr.
This is about Russia not Hamas or what OP has been asked to link and thanks for the condescending tone.